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Now's the time to conserve resources and dollars by winterizing your home. "If you put some time, money, and effort into energy efficiency, you'll stop shivering not only on a cold winter's night but also when you pay your utility bills," says Paul Kriescher, a certified energy rater with Lightly Treading Energy and Design in Denver. He offers the following tips for weatherproofing your home.
TIP 1 >>> Replace single-pane windows, especially those with metal frames. "Every insulating material has an R-value that represents how well the material insulates," says Kriescher. "The higher the rating, the better the material's insulating power. Single-pane windows usually have an R-value of 1, practically the lowest possible rating." According to Kriescher, a typical home can lose 10 percent to 30 percent of its heat through poorly insulated windows and doors. He notes that the metal-framed windows installed in many older homes are particularly inefficient because the metal conducts unwanted cold and heat into your house. Replacement options include wood, fiberglass, or vinyl-framed double- or even triple-pane windows. Or you could consider adding less expensive interior storm windows to your existing windows. If you own a historic home and want to maintain its look, a certified energy rater (see Tip 6) can recommend a window restorer who custom-builds exterior storm windows.
TIP 2 >>> Install quilted insulating shades or Silhouette blinds (made of two pieces of fabric with an air space in between), which is less expensive than replacing windows but may have similar effects. "High-quality insulated window coverings can be even better than new high-performance windows," says Kriescher. "A typical homeowner could save $50 to $100 a year on heating bills, and they'll be more comfortable as well." For maximum benefit, Kriescher advises opening blinds on sunny winter mornings, then closing them when the sun goes down. The trapped solar heat reduces the need to run your furnace at night. Look for window coverings with at least an R-3 value, and make sure coverings reach all the way to the windowsill for maximum heat-trapping efficiency.
TIP 3 >>> Wrap your water heater in a fiberglass blanket (available from any home improvement center) with at least an R-6 value. You'll spend less than $15 and save up to $25 a year—a simple fix that pays for itself quickly. To save an additional $5 a year, Kriescher says, "Invest another $5 in R-2 foam pipe wrap and wrap the first few feet of the hot and cold water pipes coming off your water heater."
TIP 4 >>> Use a programmable thermostat to set your heat back by about 6 degrees when you're asleep or out of the house, and you'll save 10 percent or more a year, says Kriescher. For example, notch it down from 70 degrees to 64 degrees. Although you can do this manually as well, the programmable thermostat never needs reminding. You can also use it to efficiently "preheat" the house before you get up or come home from work.
TIP 5 >>> Apply caulk or weather stripping anywhere you feel a draft or see daylight around a door, window, bath fan, electrical outlet, or recessed light, advises Kriescher. Look for latex caulk, which is much lower than other caulk types in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemicals that can pollute indoor air.
TIP 6 >>> Schedule a home energy audit by an independent energy rater to pinpoint where your home is losing heat and target improvements that fit your budget. To find a certified energy rater in your area (along with other energy-saving tips) visit www.energystar.gov. "An independent energy audit is like a physical exam for your house, and the objective isn't to sell something but to help get your house in better health," says Kriescher. Audits start at about $150, and many energy raters will apply the cost of the audit to any work they do on your home.


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Tips and tricks
From Gerris
Emacs mode for Gerris files
The default Gerris installation comes with an emacs major mode to edit Gerris simulation files. To enable it, you need to find where Gerris is installed. For example do:
% which gerris2D /usr/bin/gerris2D
Then edit your .emacs file and add the following lines:
;; gerris mode (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/gerris") (require 'gfs-mode)
This will setup emacs so that opening files with the ".gfs" extension automatically uses the "gfs-mode" major mode. Alternatively you can manually enable this mode on any file using (within emacs):
M-x gfs-mode
where M- stands for the "emacs Meta key" (usually mapped to "esc" on your keyboard).
If you now restart emacs and open a .gfs file, you will see that emacs highlights Gerris keywords. These keywords are also "clickable". Clicking on a keyword will open the corresponding documentation in your web browser. If you want, you can customize the way links are opened by configuring the 'browse-url' emacs function which is used by gfs-mode.
The gfs-mode also knows how to properly indent Gerris simulation files. A line can easily be indented by pressing the 'Tab' key with the cursor positioned anywhere on the line.
To automatically indent a block of text, use Ctrl-space (or the mouse) to select the block and type:
M-x indent-region
(note that you can use the Tab key to autocomplete command names).
Keyword auto-completion
gfs-mode configures dynamic abbrevs to provide auto-completion for Gerris keywords. Dynamic abbrevs are usually enabled by default in emacs. They work with any buffer. To use auto-completion, type the beginning of the Gerris keyword (e.g. "Out") and type
repeatedly. This will cycle through all the Gerris keywords starting with "Out".
You can comment out (resp. uncomment) selected blocks of text using
M-x comment-region (resp. M-x uncomment-region)
Generating several movies on-the-fly
Note that using GfsOutputView is simpler and more efficient than the technique described in this section.
While it is fairly simple to use the scripting mode of gfsview and unix pipes to generate a movie on the fly from a running simulation, how does one generate several movies simultaneously?
Using named unix fifos it is fairly easy too. For example if one has three gfsview files called wide.gfv
, closeup.gfv
and overview.gfv
and want to generate the three corresponding movies wide.mpg
, closeup.mpg
and overview.mpg
in one go, one could use the following command:
% gerris3D mysimulation.gfs | gfsview-batch3D
with a simulation file mysimulation.gfs
containing the lines:
EventScript { start = 0 } { movies="wide closeup overview" rm -f $movies mkfifo $movies for movie in $movies; do ppm2mpeg < $movie > $movie.mpg & done } OutputSimulation { step = 0.01 } stdout EventScript { step = 0.01 } { movies="wide closeup overview" for movie in $movies; do echo "Clear" cat $movie.gfv echo "Append $movie { width = 1024 height = 768 }" done }
Compressing simulation files
When it is useful to save simulation results at regular intervals, the size of the files can be reduced by using on-the-fly compression. This can be done like this:
OutputSimulation { istep = 100 } sim-%ld.gfs EventScript { istep = 100 } { gzip -f -q sim-*.gfs }
GfsView can read compressed GFS files directly.
Adding objects after a simulation has completed
If you want to add and execute Gerris objects after a simulation has completed, you can use something like:
% gerris2D -e "OutputScalarStats stderr { v = P }" end.gfs > /dev/null
Another example would be computing a distance function (i.e. a levelset function) from a VOF interface description for visualisation using isosurfaces in GfsView. This is easily done using something like:
% gerris3D -e "VariableDistance D T" end.gfs | gfsview3D -s iso.gfv
Masking out parts of the domain in GfsView
If you want to display only a subset of the mesh in GfsView you can use the NODATA
value in a GfsFunction. For example, setting the scalar field of "Squares" in GfsView to:
will only display the pressure field where it is positive. This trick also works for GfsOutputPPM and GfsOutputGRD.
VIM features and Gerris
There are plenty of vim features that can be customized to make your life easier when you work with gerris.
Using tab, you can autocomplete the keywords of gerris. To do that, add the following lines to your .vimrc:
function! Tab_Or_Complete() if col('.')>1 && strpart( getline('.'), col('.')-2, 3 ) =~ '^\w' return "\<C-N>" else return "\<Tab>" endif endfunction :inoremap <Tab> <C-R>=Tab_Or_Complete()<CR> if has("autocmd") "set complete+=k/etc/dictionaries-common/words isk+=.,( set complete+=k/usr/share/gerris/gerris.dic isk+=.,( endif " has("autocmd"
where /usr/share/gerris/gerris.dic
may vary according to how gerris was installed on your system.
Another interesting feature is to open in firefox the syntax reference page of the command under the cursor. To do that, you have to add to your .vimrc:
function! OnlineDoc() let s:browser = "firefox" let s:wordUnderCursor = expand("<cword>") if s:wordUnderCursor =~ 'Gfs' let s:url = "http://gfs.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/".s:wordUnderCursor else let s:url = "http://gfs.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Gfs".s:wordUnderCursor endif let s:cmd = "silent !" . s:browser . " " . s:url "echo s:cmd execute s:cmd redraw! endfunction
and then to map this function with some sequence of letters (in my case y use \w )
map <Leader>w :call OnlineDoc()<CR>
Remember that you can create your own vim plugin for gfs files as
au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.gfs set filetype=gfs
and to place all this stuff in .vim/after/ftplugin/gfs.vim (you can also to load the color scheme of c.vim!!!)
Restarting parallel simulations
Starting from version 2010-07-10 it should be possible to restart large parallel simulations. Just add the standard line:
OutputSimulation { step = 1 } sim-%g.gfs
and do e.g.
mpirun -np 8 gerris3D sim-10.gfs
with the same number of processors you initially used to create sim-10.gfs
Note that if you use this (simple) method each processor will need to read the entire simulation file. If you notice that this phase takes a significant amount of time (e.g. due to filesystem performance when being accessed simultaneously by many processes), you can optimise things using:
OutputSimulation { step = 1 } sim-%d-%g.gfs
which will generate a separate file for each process. You can then restart the simulation using e.g.
mpirun -np 8 gerris3D sim-%d-10.gfs
Note that this requires a version of Gerris later than 2010-07-20.
Parallel compilation
If you have a multi-core system (let's say 4), you can compile Gerris (and other sources) 4 times faster using:
% make -j4
Visualizing VTK parallel files using Visit
Visit is a nice visualization tool that allows us to visualize, among many other formats, VTK files. For parallel runs, one can generate one vtk file per processor. Then, in order to visualize all the simulation domain, we need to generate a text file with extension .visit that gathers the names of the different vtk files at a given timestep. For example, if we have generated file-0-0.vtk and file-0-1.vtk at t=0, we just need to create the following text file:
!NBLOCKS 2 file-0-0.vtk file-0-1.vtk
If you have solutions at different time steps and you want to load them at once, then you will need to do something as follows:
!NBLOCKS 2 file-0-0.vtk file-0-1.vtk file-1-0.vtk file-1-1.vtk
Further information can be found here.
How to move in 3D in a 2D space ?
If you tried to visualize a Z scalar field in a linear object of GfsView2D you noticed it's difficult to move in 3D because you are in a plane ! ;-)
May be you tried to modify the q0,q1,q2,q3 parameters of your gfv file by hand, but if you don't like sine or cosine the solution is to use the shift key of the keyboard when you move the mouse.
you can see what happens before and after the magic shift
or look in the Tsunami runup onto a complex three-dimensional beach example.

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You already know what really turns you on about the idea of having a threesome, especially with two women. There's double the amount of visual stimulation, more hands, more mouths and more girl-on-girl action than you've ever fantasized about. While threesomes are definitely an erotic luxury that only about 10% of people have tried, if you're lucky enough to be one of the dudes who talks his girlfriend into inviting another lady into the bedroom, you might be wondering what she's thinking in between the kissing and touching.
We were curious too, so that's why we asked some brave — and open — women to share what was going on in their minds when they decided to have a threesome and while it was happening. You might be surprised to find that it's not as much about you as it is about them, their own desires and trying something they also wanted to check off of their sexual bucket list.
Here's what she's thinking during a threesome, straight from women who spill all of the dirty between-the-sheets secrets:
1. When You First Ask Her
When Heather's husband, who she'd been with for four years, asked if she would ever be open to having a threesome, she was initially infuriated. "I took it really personal and like he was saying that he's not into me that much or wanted another girl more than he wanted me," she said. After she cooled down (and gave him the silent treatment for about 24 hours), he explained to her that it was something that he always wanted to try, and something he felt comfortable doing with her since she was his partner for life. Because she built confidence in their relationship — and their sex life — she wasn't as mad and told him she would think about it, and at the very least, consider it as an option.
2. When She Was Thinking About It
"I've always considered myself someone who is heterosexual but I've also found women to be more visually appealing than men. There's something more beautiful about their bodies and the way they move, compared to men." Julie says. Though Julie has always been the so-called 'guest star' during a threesome — aka, not in the relationship — she said the decision to introduce multiple partners into her sexual routine wasn't an easy one. "It made me question my sexuality a little bit, but once I weighed the pros and cons, I realized that while I fundamentally wanted to sleep with men and eventually marry a man, I also was curious about what having sex with a woman was like."
3. When She Tells You That She'll Do It
"It honestly felt like I was giving my husband the biggest birthday present ever when I told him that I would have a threesome for his 40th birthday," Katie says. "He always wanted to and we have been together since freshman year in college, so I knew it would make him very happy. I don't know who was more surprised — me or him — by my choice to go for it." Most women we talked to said that surprising their husband with agreeing to the threesome was a moment that really connected both of them and made them feel comfortable to move forward.
4. When She's Deciding On The Guest Star
Though there are many different ways to find a threesome buddy — from apps to classifieds — most experts recommend having a stranger vs. someone you know. The act itself will feel more sexual instead of personal or intimate if you choose someone outside of your social circle (or that you see on a regular basis). Katie and her husband decided to find a threesome partner by checking out erotic classified ads, and eventually, decided they would rather pay a professional escort who they knew would come with references and was clean. "Going through the process of finding someone felt a lot like interviewing someone for a job!" Katie says. "Except this time, we got to have interesting conversations around breast size, body type and how attracted we both were to the person. It was a little odd, but it was fun, too!"
5. The Week Of The Big Event
Heather says that leading up to her threesome with her husband felt a lot like it did when she first lost her virginity. "I was losing my V-card for threesomes at the age of 35, and I was self-conscious, but also excited and intrigued by the whole thing," she said. "I got my hair done, got a wax, made sure I was groomed and even exercised more that week."
6. The Night Of
Katie and her husband went out for drinks with the escort, just to make there they were both comfortable and ready to move forward. After an hour of sexy conversation and some red wine, all three decided it was time to head upstairs to the hotel room they rented for the night. "I felt really pretty that evening and like I was the most desired person in the room," Katie says. "It was an interesting feeling because usually when I thought of a threesome, I thought I'd be jealous, but instead, I felt great."
7. When She Kisses A Girl For The First Time
Laura, a mom of three who had a threesome for her husband's 50th birthday says that kissing a woman was always something she thought of doing, but had never done. When they all started getting undressed and she started kissing a woman, she was amazed at how different it was from kissing a man. "So many things were going through my head: Am I doing this right? Is this how you kiss a woman? Wow, her lips are so soft," she said.
8. When She Watches You Have Sex With Another Woman
"I won't lie, it was hard at first watching my husband have sex with someone else, when I had been the only one having sex with him for many, many years," Katie says. "I saw the same face that he gets when he's turned on and I was anxious that he would lose interest in me, but they both invited me to join in and that's when it started to feel okay. My husband seemed more desirable to me than he had in a very long time."
9. When She Has Sex With Another Woman
All women agree that it while it took some getting used to, once they got comfortable — and after their husbands helped them relax by touching them at the same time — they relaxed into the experience. While some orgasmed and some just got turned on, they all said it was something they were glad they did.
RELATED: 6 Threesome Sex Positions You Should Memorize Right Now
10. After It's Over
"We felt so connected after and I'm really glad that we experienced it together," Laura says. "It brought us closer and helped us be more open and candid with each other on our sexual desires, fantastics and preferences. Our sex life has been better ever since."


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Encrypting a very small message using public key cryptography always result in larger encrypted messages. Is it possible to deduce the algorithm used, key length, etc just by looking at the minimum encrypted message length?
More specifically, if I have black box system and when I input a small number of characters to encrypt I get the encrypted version back. Can I deduce anything about the algorithm in the black box using the encrypted message length?


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10/02/17 From carcasses to food on plates
Impressive performance by Animal Friends on the occasion of World Day of Farmed Animals
- October 2nd, at 11 am, by the Harmica alley, more than 20 activists are displaying the invisibility of farm animals by lying on the ground
By this impressive and disturbing performance, the Animal Friends association will mark the World Day of Farmed Animals, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017 at 11 a.m. on the main square in Zagreb. More than 20 activists, lying on the ground and covered with intriguing photographs, will show the passerby in what ways meat, dairy and eggs come to our kitchen tables and why the slaughterhouses and farms are hidden from our sight?
The performance took place in a strategical location, close to an alley named Harmica, that leads to a butcher shop and the so called dairy section. The interactive performance, in which the passers-by also play an important role, will in a distinct way encourage the reflection on the thought as to how the food gets to our plates and point to a fact that everyone can, without any problems, change their lifestyles and decisions, and by leaving out the products of animal origin, save countless lives on daily basis.
By the words of Vlatka Balas from the Animal friends association, "It's absurd to reach out for slaughtered animals' body parts, when store shelves and restaurants are filled with delicious plant based meals and products, and by choosing such products we can save animals, the environment and our own health."
2nd of October is recognized as the Farm animals' day ever since 1983., with the goal to direct the attention towards immense, frightening pain and death of billions of animals, being held captive on farms and in slaughterhouses across the world. In organization with Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), more than 30 organizations in the world will mark the World farm animals day. The solidarity is recognized in a common intention: to make visible the pain and repression of animals that people abuse and murder institutionally on a highest scale.
Aside from health related and ecological reasons, one of the most recurring reasons for going vegan is being ethical. Industrial farms, in line with the idea of nazi concentration camps, use the massive walls to cover up the horror of mutilated, modified, overcrowded animals, deprived of fresh air, sun, natural habitat, movement and any other basic life needs, creating misery and pain from the moment of birth to the moment of death in a slaughterhouse.
Very few will remain apathetic upon seeing scenes from everyday life on animal breeding farms because of the fact that animals are as equally sentient beings that feel pain and discomfort, just as humans. Animal friends cannot emphasize enough that the sole problem isn't extremely cruel animal handling and treatment, but also the frightening mass slaughter ocurring in the world which murders more than 60 billion living beings each year.
October is becoming more and more oriented towards plant based diet, and that is why Animal friends are inviting everybody to take a look at the video "60 billion lives" and join the Vege challenge – a free, enthralling e-mail service that is located on the www.veganopolis.net webpage.
Check the photo gallery of the performance.


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Opening talk by Defne Ayas, Director of Witte de With
Additional talk by Christa Meindersma, Director Prince Claus Fund
Witte de With is excited to unfurl her 2013 program with Tulkus 1880 to 2018, a mastodontic artwork and work in progress by Paola Pivi, based on an extensive international research.
Aimed at creating a complete collection of portraits and basic information on all the tulkus of the world – who in Tibetan Buddhism are the recognized reincarnations of previous Buddhist masters* – from the beginning of photography until today, from all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon, and from all the areas of the world where this religion is practiced, this growing survey has until now collected over 1100 photographic portraits.
Manifesting in a stunning array of forms, from high production color prints to inexpensive photocopied reproductions, and in scales ranging from pocket-size to large format, these images are the same ones commonly treasured in monasteries, hung in private households or shops, or collected by the faithful. These photographs are considered holy by the believers.
Executed in collaboration with hundreds of tulkus, individuals and institutions around the world, Pivi's research will continue to grow and be displayed through 2018 in various venues, up to a total of 10 exhibitions, after which it will be donated to the Tibetan people. The direction of the research itself has been delegated to Tibetan individuals, under the supervision of Tibetan historian Tashi Tsering, Director of Amnye Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharamshala, India. The entire project/artwork Tulkus 1880 to 2018 is non profit.
Tulkus 1880 to 2018 uncharacteristically lays bare these objects of specific veneration within the confines of a religiously plural, and often secular art institution–an institution that conversely is not known for presenting nominally sacred objects to its audience, and is itself enshrined within a long history of aesthetic discourses that attempt to establish a 'visual neutrality'.
Witte de With Director Defne Ayas calls the exhibition "a major undertaking of key historical value" and adds: "As Witte de With, we are tremendously proud to be a partner to this important project, for which Paola Pivi went beyond and above, and collaborated with spiritual leaders, scholars, researchers, and photographers, as well as with special archives. It is indeed a treat to experience it."
- In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku is the recognized reincarnation of a previous Buddhist master (a highly realized teacher or lama, e.g. H.H. the Dalai Lama or H.H. Karmapa) who is able to choose the manner of their rebirth and can often reveal the place of their next birth by means of cryptic clues. Tulkus are collectively revered for holding the lineages of oral transmission of all of the Buddha's teachings, which have been handed down through many generations. Most often they are referred to as Rinpoche or 'precious one'.
With photographs by:
Daniel Kuma Bärlocher, Sue Byrne, Das Brothers, Alexandra David-Néel, Don Farber, James Giabrone, Marion Griebenow, Thomas L. Kelly, Kinsey Bros, Vijay Kranti, Mr. M. Linden, Heather Lindquist, Marvin Moore, Melina Mulas, Tashi Nangchen, Sarah Orbanic, Tashi Paljor, Tenzing Paljor, Matthew Pistono, Claire Pullinger, Raghu Rai, Matthieu Ricard, Joseph Francis Charles Rock, Tim Roodenrys, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, David Sassoon, Sandra Scales, Jurek Schreiner, Albert Shelton, Tseten Tashi, Gursed Tserenpil, Neal Watkins, John Claude White, David Zimmerman, and many more.
Tulkus 1880 to 2018 is curated by Davide Trapezi and co-commissioned by Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and Defne Ayas on behalf of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. Special thanks go to all the sponsors who have supported this project from its inception onwards: Artissima, Turin; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan and London, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong /Paris, Photographic Laboratory Grieger, Düsseldorf, and generous contributions of anonymous donors.
The project Tulkus 1880 to 2018 and its progress is documented on the following website: www.tulkus1880to2018.net.
Public Programs
In a fashion more prismatic than mirroring, Witte de With will organize a symposium in two parts in which mental visualization, projection, and modeling will be put to task to unravel the question of how the grasping of the world as a fixed image–pictorial and/or descriptive–can hold one belief over another.
21 November 2012
New Beginnings
Film screening of The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.
2 February 2013
Lacing Buddhist Threads in Contemporary Art
This transversal event joins together a set of thinkers so as to draw out just a few rich strands from the art and culture, which bind Buddhist history. Curator Davide Quadrio will lead the audience through the visual narrative depicted in the 17th century Tibetan thangka (painting) portraying Tsuglag Gyatso, the Third Pawo Rinpoche (c 1567–1630), which references to the origin of the tulku photographic portrait tradition and hangs in the Witte de With galleries as a loadstone for the general exhibition. Expanding on the contemporary history of Buddhism in the West, artist Louwrien Wijers will in conversation with art historian Arnisa Zeqo trace early parallels between pre-Christian iconography, and the Buddha's image, punctuated by personal reflections on Wijers' introduction of the 14th Dalai Lama to Joseph Beuys and the European art scene in the 1980s.
30 March 2013
Between Seeing and Believing
This symposium will tackle a novel course and explore the faculty of imaging, both pictorially and descriptively, by focusing on how belief can be constructed through the process of envisioning. To this end, several scholars including Andrei Pop, Minou Schraven and Pascal Rousseau present a short iconographic reading of a single image of their own choice respectively—collectively though, each of these images revolve around the idea of visions, be they found in dreams, hypnosis, hallucinations, representations of the afterlife, or other related themes.
With sincere thanks to the hundreds of people and institutions who have made this project possible, and special thanks to the Private Office Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
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Ryan Madson was seen throwing off flat ground today in Tempe, but manager Mike Scioscia told reporters that the Angels' presumptive closer still has no timetable to get back on a mound.
That's essentially the status quo. Madson was dealing with soreness and inflammation in his right elbow last week. An MRI came back negative but his throwing program was put on hold. Opening day looked like a longshot for Madson then and still does now.
The 32-year-old missed all of last season following Tommy John surgery.
At least the Angels don't have to rebuild their bullpen from scratch. They can just go back to what (sometimes) worked for them last year — Ernesto Frieri in the ninth, Kevin Jepsen in the eighth, Scott Downs in the seventh — plus free-agent newcomer Sean Burnett.
Oh, about Burnett: He left camp today with stiffness in his lower back to undergo an MRI.
Stay tuned. The Angels' bullpen is officially on watch.
Things are heating up in Arizona, literally and figuratively. These links are tepid at best:
Continue reading "Daily Distractions: Angels' bullpen injury watch becomes a full-time thing." »


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"Dial it in,turn it up & let's rock this tour! I love my egnater gear! Killer tone from my Vengeance head pushing the vintage 30's in my wall of tourmaster 4x12's! Tight lows, shimmering highs and gain for days! No more fighting unwanted noise with the built in decimator! Playing live has never felt so good! ~ Dave Grahs - Pop Evil
Since re-releasing their first record in 2008, Pop Evil has developed their following the hard way. They have toured the US continuously since their first release, playing nearly 400 shows in two years and only taking time off to record their new album, War Of Angels.
Leaving no stone unturned, no fan's question unanswered, and no road untraveled, the group pulled themselves up from their bootstraps and built themselves into a radio rock powerhouse that conjures the dirtiest hooks of the hard rocking 70?s, the hair metal 80's and the grunge - fueled 90?s…filtering it all through a modern prism coupled with a philosophical and spiritual outlook.
War Of Angels is a testimony to Pop Evil's resilience. Having been down a major label route fraught with the frustrations felt by far too many bands, the group has emerged with a Top 5 Active Rock single.
They toured with Papa Roach and Judas Priest and created what Spin Magazine called one of the "10 Best Moments of Rock on the Range" where in front of tens of thousands of their heartland of the U.S.A. rock fans, they ceremoniously tore up their old contract and announced a new dawn.
With an output that easily appeals to students of Guns N' Roses, Pantera, Motley Crue and Aerosmith, Pop Evil is still nevertheless possessed with a talent, charisma and overall musical aesthetic that is decidedly and distinctly their own. They have put their stamp on the hard rock landscape with assured confidence and expert precision.
"We?re just a bunch of guys that grew up together and are hungry for rock n? roll," frontman Leigh Kakaty simply states. "There are no othersecond options for us. It?s just music. That?s what we?ve done, this is where we've always wanted to be, and grind is what we?ll continue to do."
Coming from Michigan, one of the states in the nation hit hardest by the economic downturn, Pop Evil knows something about hardship and the heart that it takes to persevere, to overcome and to conquer. They know the meaning of hard work, too. Their indie debut, Lipstick on the Mirror, resulted in a re- release through a major label and several inroads on rock radio but it's been word-of-mouth and live shows that have really driven the recently renewed momentum behind the band as their unique story continues to build.
"We?re just a good old fashioned Midwestern band that believes in grassroots and doing it from the ground up" Kakaty explains. "We?re the same band that?ll rock your face with some heavy metal riffs then bring out the acoustic guitar and play some ballads."
Their very monicker represents something of a lifestyle to these five men. "Pop" represents the band's impressive hooks and well-crafted choruses while "Evil" conjures the more aggressive, hard rock side of the band. The band is a true mixture of pop sensibilities and "evil" sounding rock n' roll. It's not so much about distancing themselves from the mainstream as it is about forcing the mainstream to come to them, on their own terms.
"I think all five of us didn?t really fit in, in our own ways, growing up," Kakaty reasons. "Pop Evil is kind of our way of saying, "this is our fraternity, our home.'"
The songs on War Of Angels reflect the various shapes, colors and emotions represented in a Pop Evil performance. The album provides a brilliant showcase for Kakaty's impressive range and various approaches, the guitar showmanship of Dave Grahs and Tony Greve, the solid bottom end of Matt DiRito and the rhythmic pulse of drummer Dylan Allison.
"Last Man Standing" is a shot across the bow, serving notice to the rest of rock radio-land that Pop Evil crafts music of a higher caliber. "It's amazing to see the reactions we get from the fans and how much the song means to them. That is priceless," Kakaty says.
"Bosses Daughter" was co-written with the legendary Mick Mars of Motley Crue. "It's got that rockin' vibe where it picks up and just doesn't stop," points out DiRito. "I get such a kick out of playing it live. I feel like I'm in Motley Crue. It becomes my Nikki Sixx moment!"
Other standouts include "Monster You Made," which addresses some hard times and points to the power of positive thinking to overcome obstacles. There's also "Broken & Betrayed" which has beautiful melodies and incredibly memorable singalong harmonies.
"Next Life" is perhaps the album's most reflective song, particularly for Kakaty, who lost his father earlier this year. "Obviously it?s a very personal piece for me as well." "And the list goes on with every song," he adds. "I don?t think there?s any one I love more than the other, I usually listen to the song that best fits my mood."
With a career-defining sophomore album in their arsenal, Pop Evil are primed and ready to take their rightful place in the hard rock pantheon amongst their contemporaries and heroes. "We want to be known as a band with great music and a great live show," DiRito says.
Pop Evil is no fly-by-night, fair-weather band. War Of Angels is just one more giant leap in a career that has been built on a solid foundation and is intended to continue onward.
Kakaty concludes, "at the end of the day, we want our fans to know that we've sacrificed our personal lives for them. We want the people who listen to our music to know that they've become our new family. That's why we?ve given up so much to do this. They are loved. Music is Love!"
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AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business. Like Friendfeed or Facebook's News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg. To beef up its lifestreaming capabilities, we have been able to confirm that it has also bought Socialthing!, a FriendFeed competitor that is still in private beta.
We don't know the price, but it was likely a small purchase. Socialthing! came out of Colorado-based incubator TechStars. Once you sign up to track friends activities on Socialthing!, it keeps automatically adding new friends for the services you choose to monitor. (See our review).
Despite all the turmoil and uncertainty about its future, AOL is trying to keep up with the times. It is embracing feeds, lifestreaming and even playing nice with other IM services such as Meebo and eBuddy. Maybe it is finally realizing that there is a bigger world out there than AOL.


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Cluster-enabling the iFolder service enables the iFolder server to be highly available at any time. If your organization is deploying only one iFolder server for the iFolder service, you should enable a server cluster. This scenario is illustrated in the following figure.
Figure 6-1 Single-Server Cluster
Open Enterprise Server (OES) provides iFolder service migration scripts that are based on Novell Cluster Services, for automatic service migration from one node to another (failover) and for re-migration to the actual node when the node recovers from failure (failback).
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March 8, 2018, by Aaron Sheldrick
TOKYO (Reuters) – Major Asian nations reacted sharply on Friday to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, warning of damage to relations amid industry calls for retaliation.
Japan said the move would have a "big impact" on the countries' close bilateral ties, while China said it was "resolutely opposed" to the decision and South Korea said it may file a complaint to the World Trade Organization.
Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday, though he announced exemptions for Canada and Mexico, and said exceptions could also be made for other allies.
China, which produces half the world's steel, will assess any damage caused by the U.S. move and "firmly defend its legitimate rights and interests," the country's Ministry of Commerce said.
The tariffs would "seriously impact the normal order of international trade," the ministry said.
The European Union, Brazil and Argentina said overnight they should not be targeted or would seek exemptions, and both Japan and South Korea said they would ask to be made exceptions also.
South Korea, a key Washington Asian ally, is the third largest steel exporter to the United States, after Canada and Brazil.
The U.S. is the world's biggest importer of steel, purchasing 35 million tonnes of raw material in 2017. Of those imports, South Korea, Japan, China and India accounted for 6.6 million tonnes.
"We should prevent a trade war situation from excessive protectionism, in which the entire world harm each other," Trade Minister Paik Un-gyu told a meeting with steelmakers.
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Trade tensions between China and United States have risen since Trump took office. China accounts for only a small fraction of U.S. steel imports, but its massive industrial expansion has helped create a global glut of steel that has driven down prices.
China's steel and metals associations urged the government to retaliate against the United States, citing imports ranging from stainless steel to coal, agricultural products and electronics.
It was the most explicit threat yet from the country in an escalating trade spat.
The dispute has fueled concerns that soybeans, the United States' most valuable export to the world's second largest economy, might be caught up in the trade actions after Beijing launched a probe into imports of U.S. sorghum, a grain used in animal feed and liquor.
"The cost of a trade war will be tremendous and it will make everyone unhappy," Junichi Makino, chief economist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo, said in a report on Friday.
Trump's declaration coincided with the signing by 11 countries of a new Trans-Pacific trade pact that the United States withdrew from last year.
The announcement underlines concerns about rising U.S. protectionism and the latest tariffs offset the positive impact from plans also announced overnight for Trump to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un that raised hopes of ending a standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, said Kwon Young-sun, an economist at Nomura Securities.
Trump in January ordered tariffs on solar panels and washing machines imports to the U.S.
Exports of these products and steel and aluminum make up less than 1 percent of South Korea's total exports, Young-sun said.
"But broader U.S. curbs and countermeasures from Europe or China could derail the exports environment going forward," he said.
A senior South Korean official said the tariffs would impact the renegotiation of the bilateral free trade deal with the United States that is currently underway.
The official said ways had to be found to address steel overcapacity in China as South Korea was the top importer of Chinese steel, although shipments from China were 21 percent down in 2017 from the previous year.
He said the United States has raised concerns over South Korea's "transshipment" of Chinese steel, although the trade ministry has argued that only 2.5 percent of steel exported to the U.S. uses Chinese material.
The official also expect higher U.S. tariffs to put South Korean carmakers, Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and Kia Motors (000270.KS), at a disadvantage in the U.S. market as it would increase their costs.
In Sydney, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sounded confident of getting favorable treatment as Trump spoke of Washington's strong relationship with Australia, a major exporter of iron ore but exports little steel and the United States was not a major customer.
"I was pleased to see the president acknowledge the strong points I have been making to him. There is no case for imposing tariffs on Australian steel," Turnbull told reporters in Sydney.
India's steel ministry said in a note to the trade ministry last month that U.S. import tariffs were expected to lead to a loss of $130 million in exports which were expected to total 333,656 tonnes for the year ending on March 31.
European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will host her U.S. and Japanese counterparts in Brussels on Saturday to discuss steel overcapacity as part of talks that begin in December at a World Trade Organization meeting in Buenos Aires.
Shares in China's steel and aluminum makers fell on Friday morning. Baoshan Iron & Steel (600019.SS) was down 3.3 percent by 0616 GMT, while Hesteel (000709.SZ) and Beijing Shougang (000959.SZ) were down more than 1 percent.
In South Korea, shares in Posco 0054900.KS were down 3.5 percent, while in Tokyo Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (5401.T) fell 0.7 percent by the close.
Chinese steel futures slumped to their weakest level since November.
Reporting by Adam Jourdan and Wang Jing in SHANGHAI, Yuka Obayashi, Kaori Kaneko and Ami Miyazaki in TOKYO, Ju-Min Park, Hyunjoo Jin and Cynthia Kim in SEOUL; writing by Aaron Sheldrick; editing by Simon Cameron-Moore
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The Hottest Technology Not on Display at CES: Smart Radio Chips
Beyond the glitz of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the wireless industry faces a fundamental problem: more features and faster data transmission are draining phones' batteries faster than ever.
Fortunately, there's room for improvement inside the devices, in parts known as power amplifiers that turn electricity into radio energy. In phones, they typically consume more power than any other component but waste half of it along the way, as lots of people can attest if they've watched their battery die (and their phone get warm) after an hour of streaming video. The same problem bedevils wireless networks' base stations, which send and receive signals to and from individual phones.
Now a major effort is under way to develop smarter power amplifiers that significantly reduce waste. Eta Devices, an MIT spinoff based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is preparing a base station module and a chip that it says not only decrease battery drain but work well in high-bandwidth applications for 4G LTE and future ultrafast technologies.
The fundamental problem is that the power needed for radio output fluctuates rapidly when a device is transmitting data at high rates. Existing power amplifiers maintain their voltage at a fairly high level at all times to be prepared for peak needs—but this is wasteful. Newer approaches adjust that level on the fly, following the "envelope" of the actual radio signal.
Such "envelope tracking," or ET, technologies are the hottest hardware development in the mobile-phone industry. Last fall Qualcomm became the first company to ship a chip with such technology, which it says is the industry's first for 3G and 4G LTE mobile devices.
The company says the chip helps lower electricity consumption by 20 percent and helps reduce a related problem—heat generation—by up to 30 percent, "allowing for longer battery life for end users, as well as enabling manufacturers to shrink the size of their devices," says Peter Carson, Qualcomm's senior director of marketing.
The envelope tracker is already in 10 phones, including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Nexus 5. Many other component makers are scrambling to catch up, including Mediatek, RF Micro Devices, Skyworks, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Nujira, and Eta Devices.
The difficulty with ET, though, is that its efficiency plunges at higher data rates. Envelope trackers often require a relatively large capacitor to store and release bursts of energy while maintaining smooth and continuous voltage changes.
Eta Devices takes a radically different approach, favoring fast, abrupt changes with a smaller capacitor. Using a smaller capacitor is more efficient; the downside is that the changes in energy cause more noise in a wireless signal. That problem is overcome by cutting-edge digital signal processing, says Joel Dawson, one of two MIT electrical engineering professors who cofounded the company.
Mattias Åström, the company president, reaches for an automotive analogy to compare the two approaches. "Envelope tracking is basically a continuous variable transmission, compared to our manual gearbox," he says. "Fuel consumption is always better when you have a manual gearbox."
The company's work hasn't been published and the chip is now being fabricated for the first time, but the concept has been built out for base stations and may be commercialized this year. The Eta module, a little smaller than a shoebox, is the first 4G LTE transmitter in the world to achieve average efficiency greater than 70 percent, a big jump from the 45 to 55 percent in currently available technology, says Dawson.
Vanu, a company that makes low-power wireless base stations (see "A Tiny Cell-Phone Transmitter Takes Root in Rural Africa"), is testing the technology and may become an early customer. "We think this can give us a 'green' benefit as well as an operating cost advantage," says David Bither, direct of platform engineering at Vanu.
The result could be to expand connectivity and make it affordable to more people in the developing world, where expensive diesel fuel powers at least 640,000 remote base stations at a cost of $15 billion.
The Eta technology was first revealed as a lab-bench setup in late 2012 (see "Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones That Use Half the Power"). The company was funded by $6 million from Ray Stata, cofounder of Analog Devices, and his venture firm, Stata Venture Partners.
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Mascall, Eric Lionel. Worship, its social significance and Grace and Glory and He Who Is.
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I have played different mono-red decks in the past and my main problem with all of them is playing against decks with strong enchantments (e.g. Circle of Protection: Red). As soon as this enchantment is out on the battlefield, I have lost. This can be played on turn 2, and my opponent can even mulligan to increase his chance of having this card in his starting hand.
While playing mono-red, I don't have Counterspells and enchantment destroyers. How do I handle these threats? I am looking for ideas legal in Standard, and legal in Legacy. "Red must be fast and win before enchantments are out" is not a good solution, because in the example above the enchantment can hit in round 2.


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After you read this fact sheet, please call the GI Rights Hotline (877-447-4487) to talk over your options with a counselor.
Thousands of people contact the GI Rights Hotline each year seeking information about absence offenses. The Army and Air Force usually refer to such offenses as AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave) while the Navy and USMC usually use the term UA (Unauthorized Absence). Such offenses are a violation of Article 86 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, (UCMJ) which states that:
Any member of the armed forces who, without authority-
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(3) absents himself or remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty at which he is required to be at the time prescribed;
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While it would be illegal for GI Rights Hotline counselors to encourage or assist someone in breaking the law, GI Rights Hotline counselors are available to give specific information regarding absence offenses, the consequences one might face, and ways the situation might be resolved. Our counselors will not tell someone what to do or not do, but they will help someone explore options in light of probable consequences. All calls to the hotline are confidential.
It is also important to recognize and respect that people go AWOL/UA for very different reasons. Some people are looking for a discharge. Some have family emergencies they could not get permission to deal with. Some people leave in a rash move of frustration without giving much thought to the consequences. Still others leave to protect themselves from harassment and threats or to get medical attention for serious physical or psychological problems which the military has failed to treat. Whatever the reasons, GI Rights counselors will discuss the situation. Additionally, the GIs who have gone AWOL/UA have a wide variety of reactions to the consequences of their decision: some feel it was a huge mistake, while others have claimed it saved their lives. Because of these differences, people who are AWOL/UA get differing levels of support and or opposition from different friends and family members who are also concerned about the consequences.


text: Liv Tyler was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith and Bebe Buell, former model (and Playboy Playmate of the Month) and stalwart of the backstage rock scene of the 1970s. Liv grew up thinking that rock star Todd Rundgren was her father. But as she was growing up, Tyler began dropping by to visit, and Liv noticed that his daughter Mia Tyler looked enough like her to be her twin. She confronted her mother, and was told the truth; by the time she was 12, she had taken her father's name. At 14, she and her mother left Portland, Maine, for New York, where she got her start as a model. A year was enough of the modeling grind, and she decided to become an actress. She was offered the part of "Callie" in Heavy (1995) after a single reading and, only three weeks later, was cast in Silent Fall (1994); James Mangold, director of Heavy (1995), decided to delay shooting until Liv was available. Read more on iMDB


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At the F8 conference today, Facebook announced a new feature for its online social network, both on the web and on mobile. Timeline now puts your personal history on Facebook into a lengthy, graphically-rich interface. You can highlight major events, drill down into smaller events, and filter what's shown so you only see one kind of content in the whole timeline (such as photos). You can see where you've been, based on your Facebook Places check-ins. Apps can plug into Timeline too, and reports can summarize your monthly activity. Facebook's angle for the service is that this is the new equivalent of having a long conversation with someone, while the first generation of Facebook was the introduction, and the last was the first 15 minutes of casual chatting.
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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
1 October
HCA moves to the corner of Dronningens Tværgade and Store Kongensgade (no. 49, 2nd floor, now demolished).
18 October
Special performance (perhaps "concert-performance") at Casino of HCA's vaudeville adaptation of En Comedie i det Grønne (A Comedy Out in the Open Air), originally written for the Royal Theatre (1840). This is the only performance of the play, but it is relaunched on New Years Eve 1848.
Release of fairy-tales translated by James Burns: Tales for the Young. (London).
27th - 28th November
Outing to Roskilde on the recently opened railway (visits the cathedral).
Release of: The Dream of Little Tuk and other Tales, translated by Charles Boner, illustrated by Count Pocci. (The publishers Grant & Griffith, London). During 1847, Charles Boner has, moreover, released two pirate copies of his own translations of HCA works, namely Tales from Denmark and The Ugly Duck and other Tales.
Release of Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer's translation: A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends, Bentleys' Publishing, London.
16 December
Release of Ahasverus (epic-dramatic poem).
23 December
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2003 Leipzig Human Rights Award of the European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA
(originally the "2000 Alternative Charlemagne Award")
Award Winner's Speech
LEIPZIG 18 May 2003
Members of the Committee, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: Thank You! I am honoured and pleased to accept the Human Rights Award of the European- American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA.
Yesterday, on the 17th of May, we Norwegians celebrated our constitution day to mark the signing of Norway's constitution in 1814. Maybe it is because we are a small country: In Norway this is an important day. All over Norway children have paraded in their best clothes to the music of thousands of marching bands, and countless speeches have been made to remind each others, as fellow Norwegians, that freedom should never be taken for granted.
Norway's almost 200 year old constitution was heavily inspired by the French and United States' Constitution penned a few years earlier. The new constitution had 3 key elements:
We are gathered here today, not to focus on individuals such as myself, but to remind ourselves, like millions of my countrymen did yesterday, that these rights might all too easily be lost, and that countless human beings are still deprived of such basic rights as freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
What brings us together across the world, in spite of our different nationalities, languages, political and religious beliefs, is a strong belief in our obligation to guard these rights and assure they are not abused.
But we have one more thing in common: We have identified and declared war on the most hideous abusers of all: The Organizations, churches and cults, religious or not, whom, under the protection of exactly these rights - freedom of religion and freedom of speech - abuse them and deny their followers and ex-members of these same rights.
You may ask: Should not the protection of these rights be a public responsibility? Does not the constitution of, say, Germany, Norway or the United States establish bodies and procedures for the protection of these rights?
Yes, they do, and therein also lays the problem. The organizations we are up against are masters in disguising their activities under these very rights our governments are obligated to uphold and protect.
Was it not for the likes of you and me: Ordinary citizens around the world with a particular obligation to speak out about, and spotlight the abuse of these basic human rights: I sincerely believe that such cults could develop into ever more menacing and abusive organisations that someday might threaten the very foundation of our democratic society.
In 1996 I read a story about how a Norwegian ex-Scientologist sued and won a case against the Church of Scientology. It made me curious enough to spend a weekend doing research on the Internet. What surprised me was the reluctance I met among people who obviously had a story to tell. It did not take long to understand that what kept them back was FEAR! Fear of an organized system of reprisals and repression.
At first I thought that no thinking person would fall for the strange arguments and naive stories of such a cult. Later I was to find that the Church of Scientology had built an insidious system of logic and snares that had trapped a number of bright, intellectual individuals, represented by ex-members whom I grew to respect. Several became personal friends. I saw that it might have been me - or you!
What began as a week-end stunt developed into countless long nights and a steadily and still growing material documenting the Church of Scientology. But certainly not lonely nights: What motivated me and kept me going right from the start, was the response I received and still get: I was contacted again and again by crying parents from around the world, teenagers having lost years of their youth, children who had seen their parents disappear into the grip of this organization, ex-members in constant fear of retribution. Today Operation Clambake -- the name of my Internet site -- has become a lifestyle. I have an obligation to keep the site alive. But I don't see it as a burden. It makes my life richer, by providing meaning and purpose. The feeling that what you do makes a difference alone~ makes it worth everything. Not for millions -- that is not my arena, but for INDIVIDUALS who contact me every day.
Although, I admit, at times I find it hard to juggle my nightly activities with my daytime job as a Managing Director in a Multinational Corporation; I find my experience valuable in my professional leadership. Words are cheap, values are all too easy to support passively: You have to LIVE your values! And I can prove it!
I am not a former Scientologist. I hold no grudge against the organization or any of their representatives. I do not have reason to seek revenge. But I am a humanist. I believe that all humans should be free to believe in whatever they want, including Scientology. What I will not accept, from the Church of Scientology or anyone other church or organization, is deceitfulness, lack of compassion .for its members, aggressive hard sell, arrogance, attack on free speech, litigiousness, harassment of critics, lack of concern for families, gross neglect and abuse of children.
Not from the Church of Scientology, nor from anyone else.
Today I want to bring to your attention an even greater enemy I believe we also have in common: INDIFFERENCE!
Last year Time Magazine named three women Persons of the Year:
These three women were Whistleblowers - people who dare to speak out when they discover injustice or untruths, and are willing to take the consequences. All three sacrificed their careers for something they believed in. Whistleblowers are the true heroes of the war against indifference. Whistleblowers need our support. Not only our moral support which is all too easy to give, they need our practical support and even refuge.
Therefore, I want to share this prize with all who speak up, all who expose abuse, deceit and untruthfulness, all who will not accept injustice, but do something about it, and particularly with those who also take risks doing so.
I believe that the basic human rights our modern societies are built on, the rights my fellow Norwegians celebrated yesterday must never be taken for granted. We have to earn these rights - again and again!
Thank You!
Andreas Heldal-Lund
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I've got my reaction up on LC. In short, Nick Clegg has destroyed the Liberal Democrat party because he wants to be a minister.
The country benefits in the short term, very very slightly – the Libservative government will be slightly less socially nasty than a Tory plus Ulsterite minority government – but it's still basically going to implement Tory policies.
In exchange for which, the Lib Dems have, as far as I can see, been wiped out – they will lose so much left-wing support next time round that they'll be reduced back to mid-20th-century levels of vote share, and they aren't even likely to get the changes in the electoral system that would make that worthwhile (unless the Tories have pledged to support a "Yes" vote in the Alternative Vote referendum, in which case I'm pleasantly shocked and retract some of my scorn).
So I guess it's time for UK lefties to rejoin Labour, and try and ensure the candidates who'll win the seats next time where left-wing voters previously supported the Liberal Democrats are left-liberals rather than Blairites…


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vasectomy- yay or nay?
since this may be an issue in the very near future for my husband and I... have you done it? Would you recommend it? Will his balls really sag afterwards? :-\
i say go for it. what the hell.
Well there haven't been any other responses, so I'll throw in my not-first-hand-experience.
My brother had one after his second child. There was sensitivity for a bit, and then everything was fine. I'd presume everything since has been good. No comment on ball sagging, although I can't understand why they would, the vas deferens not being part of the support structure.
Personally, this makes more sense to me than being on hormonal birth control. Yes, it is (most likely) permanent so you've got to be at the stage of your life that you're sure you don't want any (more) kids. Otherwise, it's a simple procedure that saves the woman in your life having to deal with whatever it is she normally does as a method of birth control. I say ;)b
Personally, this makes more sense to me than being on hormonal birth control. Yes, it is (most likely) permanent so you've got to be at the stage of your life that you're sure you don't want any (more) kids. Otherwise, it's a simple procedure that saves the woman in your life having to deal with whatever it is she normally does as a method of birth control. I say ;)b
yes! you're awesome, man. it would be nice if my bf got a vasectomy. he is adamant about not wanting kids so i don't get why he doesn't do it.
my friend had a vasectomy at the age of 24. i don't know all the details but i think he's pretty happy with it.
My husband had it done when I was pregnant with the second child. He had one time where it hurt when he came, but it never happened again. Read up on it...there can be some side effects, although they are rare. I love it. I never have to take BC again! His balls do not sag any more than they ever did before. Aren't balls naturally a little bit saggy? Who cares if they do? Will it ruin is Playboy career or something?! ;)
I would also ask, how old are you? do you have children? I didn't want kids at all until I turned about 29 or so. Then everything changed. It is not something you want to have reversed someday.
My partner just had one about a month and a half ago. He recovered pretty quickly (heh, our sex life is def back to normal!), but I suppose it's too early to tell if his balls are going to get saggy(ier?). They shouldn't, but I agree with L2a: who cares?
He's in his 30s and has wanted one since his mid-20s, but he searched hiiiigh and low for a doctor who would perform it for him and had a lot of frustrations. Most docs flat-out refused b/c he was young, and others nagged the shit out of him so much that he didn't feel comfortable and supported by them. (More ranting and raving about how it feels like no one supports the choice to be a non-breeder, but that's a different thread!)
Neither my partner nor I want kids. I've had an IUD for a year and really like it, but he decided it was the right time for this vasectomy and had found a good doctor, so I suppose I won't have to "renew" after my IUD needs to come out-- lucky me. :) This was a decision that we've both been thinking about independently for years and years, and when we started talking about it together, it just felt very right and natural.
My previous partner also wanted a vasectomy b/c he knew that I did not want kids, but I didn't feel comfortable with that decision. Maybe it's because we were younger, but I actually do believe it's because I had a feeling that we wouldn't stay together forever, and he was somewhat indifferent about having kids-- not adamantly against having them, but rather going along with me because I felt so strongly about it. Obviously I don't think you should have kids if you're indifferent about them, but I do believe that somehow who is indifferent at age 24 may very well change their mind at 30 or 35, so I felt very nervous about supporting him getting a vasectomy. ESPECIALLY with the idea in the back of my head that he would move on from a non-breeder (me) and find a new partner, one who maybe *does* want kids. I know he has a new girlfriend now, but I have no idea how serious they are or what they're thinking about in that regard, but someday I'd like to ask him... Nosy, mostly. :)
FYI: You can bank sperm beforehand, but the storage is expensive.
So yeah, there's my wordy explanation to say, be sure that both partners are on board 100%! It is reversible in most cases, but it's expensive and painful and not covered by insurance.
sharway! A+ post!!
Hahaha, thanks! Every once in a while my garrulity comes in handy for someone else! :)
My hubby had it done in Dec. He said he felt like he was kicked in the balls but it only took a 2 days to get past constant icing with frozen peas. I say way better then me having to go under the knife after all I have a;ready done two natural child births.
If you are absolutely done having children. Then yes, definitely he should get one. For most men the pain is not what people joke about. I had mine on a Friday morning, mid Saturday was the last time i used a bag of ice. I was out and about on Sunday. FYI - at the top of my medical chart it says "another man who is a big baby around medical stuff". Being men, there may be a small chance we are magnifying the expression of pain for a little sympathy. ;)
It gives both of you a huge relief factor.
I would completely recommend the procedure.
As for the sagging, I believe that has more to do with age and lack of exercise!
As for the sagging, I believe that has more to do with age and lack of exercise!
Gold star for brutal honesty, sir!
Would exercise really give a person tight balls?
It's not like there's muscles in there!
When I took a Human Sexuality class, my professor said there was a risk of natural reversal-- though I don't know how often that may occur. And they can also go back in and try to reverse the v-sec though it may or may not be successful.
But everything has its risks. I'm all for it!
ALSO, I've heard that a male BC is being tested. Some pill that keeps the sperm from swimming? I think that's pretty interesting.
ALSO, I've heard that a male BC is being tested. Some pill that keeps the sperm from swimming? I think that's pretty interesting.
Yes, I think this technology is progressing in a few places. I had an IUD fitted on the NHS (in the UK) three months ago and while I was there I saw posters up calling for monogamous couples to try the male BC pill.
My boyfriend and I always wanted kids, but our plan from day one was to adopt. We've spent the last couple years on the back and fourth about whether I should get and IUD or he should get a vasectomy. Well, while we were debating I GOT KNOCKED UP haha, so there goes that. The good news is that we did want kids, this just isn't the route we planned to take. I'm actually glad it happened because now we'll never get that "I wish I could have a biological child, or experience pregnancy, but its too late!" thing, which should make the decision of a vasectomy a little easier on both of us. Well, a lot easier on me. Only a little easier on the person going under the knife!
The world is headed for an underpopulation crisis. Modern, secular, urbanized cultures presently cut their population in half with each generation (i.e. average ~1 child per woman). There is no way to have a healthy growing economy with an aging and shrinking population! So, ethically speaking, people who can afford it should really try to have more children whenever they possibly can.
My husband had it done a decade ago and all's well!
I regret having it done. However I had other health issues which may have caused further trouble in that area after. Varicose seal (sp) which is a water retention situation developed. If you have diabettic or neurological issues you might want to avoid it.
Also as picture shows, I never had a girl


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• consensus •
Pronunciation: kên-sen-sês • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A state of general agreement within a group. 2. A position or opinion that a group as a whole agrees on unanimously or nearly unanimously.
Notes: I should hope that there is a consensus among us all that this term should be treated at some point in our series of Good Words. First, watch the spelling. Although they both have to do with counting heads, consensus and census are unrelated and hence spelled differently. Second, look out for the redundancy in the by now idiomatic phrase, "consensus of opinion". A consensus is a kind of opinion so the repetition is unnecessary unless you wish to emphasize the consensus. Redundancy for the sake of emphasis is very, very, very common in all languages. The plural is consensuses.
In Play: Although generally considered formal, this word is perfectly suitable for household conversation: "I take it that we have reached a consensus on which toppings to order on the pizza." A consensus may be stretched to convergences of things other than opinions, "The consensus of testimony supported the charge that Bea Heine did, in fact, switch the signs on the men's and women's restrooms, leading the jury to a quick consensus of guilty on all charges."
Word History: This Good Word is the past participle of the Latin verb consentire "to agree," made up of con "with, together" + sentire "to feel," implying a shared sense or feeling. The root of sentire is, as it appears, related to English send. The original Proto-Indo-European root meant "direct, move in a specific direction", a meaning which lends itself to slippage to "send" and "sense". The words scent, sense, sentence, and sentiment all come from Latin sentire "to feel," from the sense "to move toward mentally or spiritually". (I sense a consensus that it is time we offer Marie Geesa our sincerest thanks for sending us today's excellent Good Word.)
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Is there any way to have and use a local calendar on Android?
I would like to use it on the Android phone and open the file (vcs, ics, anything) on my laptop sometimes.
I have not found any applications that deal with local calendar files stored on the SD-card of the phone. I have found only numerous cloud applications so far.
Is there any app that can open and edit local calendar files on Android?


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Cashew Chicken Rotini Salad
- 1 package (16 ounces) spiral or rotini pasta
- 4 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple tidbits, drained
- 1½ cups sliced celery
- ¾ cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1 cup seedless red grapes
- 1 cup seedless green grapes
- 1 package (5 ounces) dried cranberries
- 1 cup ranch dressing
- ¾ cup mayonnaise
- 2 cups salted cashews
Cook pasta according to package directions.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the chicken, pineapple, celery, onions, grapes and cranberries.
Drain pasta and rinse in cold water; stir into chicken mixture.
In a small bowl, whisk the ranch dressing and mayonnaise. Pour over salad and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Just before serving, stir in cashews.


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TechRadar Verdict
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VDSL/ADSL2+ broadband
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Dual-band 2.4GHZ/5GHz
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Comprehensive interface
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VoIP features
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Lacklustre 2.4GHz performance
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Average 5GHz performance
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Awkward chassis design
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No power or reset button
Why you can trust TechRadar
AVM has a habit of gradually releasing updated versions of previous models, so enter the AVM FRITZ!Box 3390, a jump up from the ever so slightly disappointing AVM FRITZ!Box 3370. Germans are huge fans of the FRITZ!Box range, and you can hardly blame them, since we're rarely left unimpressed. Not to be confused with the FRITZ!Box 7390, which features the added ability of handling an entire DECT phone system, this lesser 3000 range is a more typical home broadband and wireless router.
The main feature bump for the AVM FRITZ!Box 3390 is a major improvement to its wireless capabilities. The previous FRITZ!Box 3370 was a dual-band-capable router, but only exclusively at either the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz band, albeit at the higher-end 450Mbps speed. At the time we couldn't quite understand the thinking behind this, and it was the main flaw of an otherwise impressive router.
AVM has finally kitted out the FRITZ!Box 3390 with dual-band wireless that's simultaneously at both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, both running at 450Mbps, which we'd guess from modern wireless parlance makes it 900Mbps, but then we're not in marketing.
So what else is inside the box? To kick off there's an ADSL2+ and VDSL broadband modem. The VDSL element is required for BT Infinity and associated fibre broadband services with its high-speed 100Mbps capabilities. For straight ADSL2+ use we found the modem to be solid, offering excellent upload speeds and good downloads. The box itself has four Gigabit LAN ports, two rear USB ports that double as NAS drives and a printer server, with top-mounted WLAN and WPS buttons.
A key feature of the FRITZ!Box 3390 is its interface. Even in its basic setting it can be somewhat overwhelming for a novice, but for anyone familiar with routers it's a fantastically comprehensive interface. From its detailed diagnostic and reporting, to its remote management and smartphone app control, it's an impressive feature list. We particularly liked the ability to set white and black lists for individual devices connected to the router, rather than a global one.
Further offerings include basic virtual WLAN in the form of guest wireless access and support for wireless repeaters. The guest network can also - and this is unusual - extend to anything connected via the fourth LAN port, so any devices connected here can't access the rest of the local network, only the internet.
Another impressive aspect of the FRITZ!Box 3390 is its power management. Alongside WLAN schedules it enables you to power down areas such as individual ports or switch them to low-power modes, too. It also provides a comprehensive breakdown of its power usage.
AVM has implemented a pretty slick installation process, which is backed up by its ever impressive yellow-washed web interface. Once connected, opening a browser will automatically direct you to the FRITZ!Box installation page, which uses a standard Wizard to configure your broadband connection.
With the FRITZ!Box 3390's interface there is a Standard/Advanced mode switch, but it does little to mask, hide or guide novice users in anyway. While technical types will revel in the abundance of settings, it really could be overwhelming for the uninitiated.
When testing wireless devices we put them through a number of set real-life environments to emulate how the devices could be used in homes and offices. The first is a standard same-room test, the second places a solid brick wall between the router a room away and the last is a line-of-sight 25m distance test, to see how the router copes with distance.
For this AVM FRITZ!Box 3390 we ran upstream and downstream speed tests at both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands with a standard Intel 450Mbps-capable wireless adaptor.
Kicking off at 5GHz in a same-room scenario, a solid 25.4MB/s upload speed is certainly good in this class, but a less impressive download hit 17.9MB/s, which is more on the average side.
At one-room away these speeds remained good, with both upstream and downstream speeds in the 17MB/s ballpark. More disappointingly, at distance we found the router to be lacking, with speeds dropping to an at-best middle of the road 5.6MB/s upstream and 6.5MB/s downstream. More recent models put in results closer to the 10MB/s mark.
Performance at the 2.4GHz band was less impressive. To be fair the distance tests displayed a 5.9MB/s upstream and 7.5MB/s downstream rate, which manages to hold its own among other routers. Least impressive were middle-distance tests that managed 14.4MB/s upstream and 13MB/s downstream, since this sort of performance is really at the lower end of the speed spectrum.
Even same-room speeds didn't drag themselves up much from this, even with a full 450Mbps connection speed. We recorded a rather lacking 15.6MB/s download and a more respectable 18.2MB/s upload rate, when something more in the 20MB/s region is expected.
In use the FRITZ!Box 3390 seemed to get reasonably warm. We guess the odd design with its raised fins is to ensure the top-mounted vents remain clear, since we guess there's a danger of overheating. Screw holes for wall mounting are available, but we doubt it'd be too happy on its side.
Another oddity we've seen across the FRITZ!Box range is the lack of any hard power or reset buttons. The power button is the least annoying, but the lack of reset button can be a real issue, especially since it's only possible to reset the box via the web interface.
The AVM FRITZ!Box 3390 is the latest addition to the FRITZ!Box range, at best boasting just a minor feature improvement over it elder the FRITZ!Box 3370, which was released earlier in 2013.
The key improvement is the move to dual-band 802.11n wireless networking with a six antenna array offering full 450Mbps speed on both bands. The other key feature carried over is its dual VDSL and ADSL2+ modem, which enables connection to high-speed 100Mbps fibre broadband networks.
We liked
AVM has a heritage with its excellent FRITZ!Box interface, offing comprehensive features and information beyond anything you find on other routes. That continues with the FRITZ!Box 3390, and for people who enjoy knowing every detail of their hardware it's a real treat. It's especially detailed on the broadband connection, revealing hitherto masked connection details.
The inclusion of the VDSL modem is going attract people after their own fibre router - it's really the whole reason for picking up this model. The VoIP system is a neat addition, and the ability to fire up a browser extension or smartphone app to manage the router is very welcome.
We disliked
The wireless performance was less than impressive. FRITZ!Box has only usually offered at best average wireless performance, but this takes a step down. At 5GHz, performance is certainly average, and a little disappointing at distance. This extends to the 2.4GHz band too, with it doing little to help improve average speeds.
Another oddity is that the FRITZ!Box combines both bands into a single SSID, whereas most routers provide two separate ones, which you can then name the same if needed. This combined move does make it easier to manage, and you still have separate speed controls over individual bands, but it makes it more troublesome to connect on the band you want.
Final verdict
The number of VDSL models on the market is limited, and there's no doubt that this FRITZ!Box 3390 should be at the top of your list if you're in the market for a high-performance wireless broadband home router. The main turn-off is the average performance from the wireless router, especially with 802.11ac technology finally appearing in a few high-end laptops.
The fact is that VDSL models are thin on the ground. An alternative would be the FRITZ!Box 7390, but it can only offer 300Mbps WLAN and you would be far better off with this FRITZ!Box 3390.
First reviewed 27 August 2013
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